David has been our property manager for over 4 years, and he's been professional, efficient, and…read moreresponsive. To be transparent, we are property owners, so this review is from the owner's point of view. Having said that, he's been proactive in making sure the rental house is in a good shape, including regular annual maintenance. This is to ensure tenants get what they pay for. One thing David really stands out is his responsiveness and timely communications. Tips: believe it or not, best way to contact him is via email. He'll call me as soon as he's available whenever I ask him to call me via email. His email responses are mostly cryptic and straight to the point, and some folks may take that differently. But for us, we like his cut-to-the-chase, no-nonsense style. Believe us, we have had a different property manager before, and he may seem courteous, but his responsiveness and professionalism are not even close to David's.

Have been with David Drake for 2 years and so far his service has been impeccable! David is…read moreexperienced and knows how to handle tenants properly. David doesn't ignore hard problems but will take care of them right away. These problems were ignored for years by my previous property manager (also full-priced 10% but not half as worth the price). When faced with tricky situations, David will try to find the best solution for the landlord. Windermere seems to be doing a very professional job and I hope they can remain excellent always!

Took a chance on Prime being new to the area, but not to the business. Great communication and…read moretransparency offices are centrally located! Although I'm no longer in the area I'm at ease knowing my properties are in good hands. Thanks again!

I recently purchased an investment property in WA and was planning on managing it on my own. That…read moredidn't last too long since it turned out to be more work than I had imagined . I'm so happy I found these guys. They are quick and efficient and I don't even need to think about my property anymore. I realized it's absolutely necessary to have someone local to oversee your biggest investment.

Just sharing my lived experience as a current tenant of 2 years. Did you know co and fire alarms…read moreare normally only good for 8-10 years? Be safe check yours Other reasons in my opinion: Media Reasouce: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/with-may-rent-looming-some-seattle-tenants-eye-rent-strikes-as-coronavirus-continues-to-upend-lives/ Government Reasource: https://council.seattle.gov/2020/04/28/my-response-to-cornell-associates-comments-to-media-rights-of-their-tenants/ Warning for POC https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2020/09/10/44448333/landlord-to-tenants-take-down-your-blm-signs-or-face-eviction BBB Complaints: https://www.bbb.org/us/wa/seattle/profile/property-management/cornell-associates-inc-1296-520867/complaints?utm_source=chatgpt.com Helpful information not legal advice to know before: * If charged unexpected fees--especially not outlined in the lease--you may have legal grounds under RCW59.18.063 to contest these. * For unresolved maintenance or habitability issues (like mold, sewage odor, leaks), you can escalate through the Seattle Department of Construction & Inspections or King County Housing Division. 206-684-4110

Landlords, These are great property managers. They are…read moreproactive. I trust them. They manage my money and time wisely. They tell me stuff when they think I should know. I rarely have to think about my apartment building and very rarely do I need to know anything about tenants. They make me feel like family. And I don't think they steal from me like my real family does. All my previous management companies were Cluster chaos

All I can say is the customer service is the absolute best. I know that they really care and make…read moreit a priority to take care of each and everyone who needs assistance. Work orders are taken care of promptly and efficiently. They are kind, professional and you know they love what they do! Thank you Epic for caring and treating me with kindness and respect.

These people that took over the Postmark apartments in Shoreline absolutely suck. They aren't…read morebilling out utilities because they can't figure it out. They can't figure out the fire alarm system because, since they have taken over, it goes off repeatedly. I am currently awake because it's currently going off. Do not move into any "Epic" asset management property. The only thing "Epic" about these people is their incompetence.

Working with Maple Leaf has been a pleasure, particularly thanks to our property manager Katie!…read more From the start, Katie's eye for quality and completeness was very helpful in getting the home in great shape. She unfailingly followed up and kept track of every detail and project, coordinating across multiple contractors and the wrap-up and move out we were doing. Her communicativeness and responsiveness has been enormously helpful, including when it came time for leasing and move-in. Katie kept everything on track, and went above and beyond with a day packed with tours. Maple Leaf and Katie's professionalism and care really shine through - would recommend working with them!

We continue to be pleased with Maple Leaf Property Management and our manager Katie Mandell has…read morebeen great! She alerts us when issues rise and was really helpful in our recent water heater replacement project. She is professional, prompt, and so nice to work with. Maple Leaf on a whole has been great in terms of overall management and bookkeeping as well.

These guys probably are really good property managers, because they will do anything to remove a…read morenegative review. They actually lied to Airbnb and told them I never stayed there - and because I never responded to their automated messages about the house, Airbnb told me that I had to prove I was there with photos or similar. What masterful con artists.

If you ever need a property management company for your Short Term Rental properties in the Seattle…read morearea, I would highly recommend Eva and Sid. I have been working with them for over a year and I couldn't be more happy with their services. Here are just few callouts from my experiences: They are your one stop solution for any needs including finding the perfect rental properties (Eva is a licensed real estate agent), furnishing the house, and handling daily airbnb operations. They are great with interior design and will make your properties aesthetically stand out among all other listings on airbnb. They are super on top of everything, extremely responsive, considerate, knowledgeable and responsible. They're always just one text msg or phone call away. When things need to be addressed or fixed in my property, they will provide different solutions and prompt fix; and their quote is always reasonable and transparent. With my STR property, they handle all the communications and daily operations, and provide me with a monthly statement. They closely monitor and constantly adjust all of their listings to make sure both occupancy rate and price are at optimization. With their hard work and dedication, my STR property is generating positive cash flow and it is one of my best investments. Eva and Sid are a smart and diligent couple, who will happily share their knowledge and expertise to help their clients to succeed.

Adding to my earlier review as Debbie Smith is a star and has helped me sell three condos over the…read morelast few years (including during a pandemic!) and has always been a wonderful agent. She is quick, courteous and brings an incredible network of contacts from junk haulers, painters, inspectors, contractors, you name it. Thank you Debbie for being such an amazing person and making the impossible - Possible!

I've been a tenant since I moved to Seattle 3 years. I've lived in various states at various…read moreproperties and I can confidently say Debbie Smith is the best property manager I've ever had. She's attentive and genuinely cares about everyone that lives in the building. She's thorough and also transparent about everything. When you constantly hear horror stories about other property management companies and the turn over around the area, it makes me feel lucky to have found this spot. Highly recommend to anyone looking for a new place.

I wrote an initial review several months ago for one employee in particular who went above and…read morebeyond and exceeded my expectations of Northwest Apartments. Sean C. is def one of the best! I've had the pleasure of working with Elatish S., a new building manager at my apartment building, The Tuscany, and she's done such a wonderful job over the last few months that I just had to show her some respect! To be honest, I've had some less than stellar interactions with some other Northwest Apartments employees (my individual experiences may not be the same experience others may have had with these employees and may not reflective of job they may have done overall). I try to give people the benefit of the doubt and don't leave negative reviews unless something egregious has happened but I certainly was in no hurry to sing their praises on Yelp. My overall opinion of the company suffered as result of these interactions and I was pretty convinced it might be time to seek greener pastures with another property management company at the end of my lease. Elatish S. has been a much needed breath of fresh air and she has single handedly renewed my belief that Northwest Apartments is a great company to rent from. I'd heard that Northwest Apartments is trying to improve it's image and is working harder to exceed the expectations of their renters. Bringing Elatish S. onboard a few months ago has gone a long way towards achieving that goal and I can honestly say that she consistently exceeds my expectations! It's been a rough year and a half for me, as it has been for so many of us. The pandemic has left me unemployed and that comes with a whole host of other problems and setbacks as you can imagine being long-term term unemployed can cause in someone's life. Add to that just the common day to day issues that might arise when renting an apartment and it's fair to say that I've needed to be in touch with the building manager at least a handful of times recently. Elatish S. always responds to my emails and phone calls within 48 hours, if not that very same day. She is incredibly business oriented and exceedingly professional, and yet she has the kind of personality that makes professionalism also seem warm and inviting. She seems to be naturally upbeat and genuinely cares about her tenants. Did I mention that she manages TWO properties with several dozen tenants in all and yet she is prompt, thorough, and really takes the time to make sure her tenants feel listened to and understood. She even gave me a warm "congratulations" on the new job I just got (most money I've ever made!) and it's not unusual to see a "Yay!" or other positive exclamation in her emails. Its so refreshing and really feels good to work with someone who is truly amazing at her job and who also truly cares about the well being of the world around her. And I guess Northwest Apartments deserves some credit for adding this "diamond in the rough" to their team. One of the best hiring decisions ever, imo! I've rented from more than a few property management companies over the years and most are just kind of "okay" or maybe even less than okay. Sean C. and Elatish S. are the best of the best, genuine stand-outs in their fields and I cannot gush enough about how lucky Northwest Apartments is to have such amazing talent as part of the team. If you're looking for a new apartment in Seattle, forget what you may have heard about Northwest Apartments in the past. Everyone deserves a second chance, deserves a chance to do better. Lots of companies talk a good game of doing right by their customers. How many of those companies actually turn that game they talk up into real, tangible improvements? Well I can say emphatically that wanting to do better by their customers isn't just lip service here, at Northwest Apartments there's a genuine effort to be better, to do better, to truly become the property management company of choice in Seattle. Thanks to Elatish S. and Sean C., Northwest Apartments is the BEST company to rent from in Seattle. So give them a call or check out their website the next time you find you find yourself in the market for a new apartment to rent in Seattle. I'm confident that you will be as eager to 'gush' about your experience with them as I am!

Some of the dirtiest, shadiest, and fraudulent people I've ever rented from. I lived in the…read moreUniversity Flats building on 15th Ave N in University District. This building blatantly broke the law--they are guilty of fraud, and I have the proof to back it up. After I moved out, they tried to steal my $600 security deposit, fabricating bogus charges for "unit cleaning" and "paint/wall repair" (see their letter and bill below). This isn't just shady--it's straight-up illegal. Specifically, this directly violates RCW Title 59, Chapter 59.18, Section 69.18.257, Paragraph 4 (photo of the law attached). Fortunately for me (and unfortunately for them), I have photo evidence proving the condition of the apartment when I left (see attached). I am now suing them for double what they stole from me. Wish me luck by leaving a like! DO NOT do business with these people. They will scam you, and now you've been warned. P.S. Parking is an absolute nightmare 90% of the time.

DO NOT GIVE THESE PEOPLE YOUR BANK ACCOUNT INFO. They coherce you into doing so and absolutely will…read moreabuse it. Does it seem weird that the person who showed you the apartment ghosted you and changed their number? That's only the beginning of a Property Manager that operates like a criminal enterprise/shell company. Changing phone numbers and temporary email addresses are what you can expect from a sketchy company that will not respond to any problem, no matter how severe or urgent, even after they've illegally deducted thousands of dollars from your bank account, especially then. Yes they have apartments. They do not manage them. You will never talk to them again after they get your bank account information. They cashed our housing voucher payments for 2-3 months, but treated my bank account like a candy jar to withdrawal full rent anyways and have refused to talk to me about for over a month despite many messages. I removed my bank information from their sketchy app and told them to stop, but they continued to make completely illegal, unauthorized withdrawals anyways. We're talking straight up theft and embezzlement. We haven't even moved out yet. I am certain they are stealing money from tenants bank accounts for fake damage after they move out. I had to put a stop payment on this company long before that. We are very good tenants but Arboreal treated us like absolute garbage. We live in Brooklyn Yard which is also rented out to an electronic music dance club that uses the most invasive, illegal subwoofers 3-4 times a week that severely vibrate the whole building. You would think that they would stop at the time city ordinance mandates, but midnight is when these complete Aholes turn it up, and continue to get louder until the final 3:30 AM drop. We average about 4 hours of sleep and are on the bars schedule with none of the fun. We are completely sleep deprived in addition to the severe stress of these criminals overdrafting my bank account to steal thousands. At 8:00 AM you will be woken up by major construction all around your unit that is almost as loud as any noise can be, like grinding metal outside your door and toxic fumes filling your apartment. They replaced the whole 4th floor landing while people were living here without telling anyone what was happening other than forbidding them to leave or enter their apartment for 8 hours with almost no notice, twice. When that was done they started banging and drilling on the roof direct above our heads at 8:00 every AM, that is so loud it sounds like the ceiling will open up above me. Ive dealt with Ants before but nothing like what enters this apartment because nothing was caulked and theres no proper exterior. These apartments are poorly constructed and God knows what could happen in a real emergency. I had medical emergency when they decided to do an 8:00 AM fire drill with almost no warning. We were woken up by the loudest alarm possible in our bedrooms. I couldn't even give a decible to the volume of this alarm but it shocked us both out of a dead sleep after a long night of bass drops. I live with a very disabled woman who can't use stairs and thought there was a real fire. Maintenance barged into our apartment without asking to show me the notice they posted to my door less than 24 hours before. Thank goodness I had clothes on. Is that legal? Obviously No. Does Arboreal care? Im dont even think this is a real property management company. The stress of all this has caused me multiple medical emergencies. Arboreal has a severe lack of regard for their tenants. The apartment you think you are looking at is not the one you will get. Imagine the smallest apartment on the market. Thats what they will show you. If you apply without looking you will be shocked by a tiny, poorly designed box at move in that may or may not have a living room. There is no problem Arboreal can solve. Did they offer you parking? Its going to be a few months before you get a remote, if ever. That little glitch doubled our moving costs. And thats not all. Our toilet backed up into the livingroom the day we moved in. They abandoned a disabled woman without a bathroom for 4 days because of the weekend. We almost had to get a temporary rental as soon as we moved in. They are not available for plumbing emergencies on weekends or holidays so don't ask. Arboreal conducts business like a criminal enterprise. Its the kind of company you have to call the police on and will be forced to sue because they lack any ability or desire to resolve the problems they cause. They have so much availability for a reason. Perhaps if they responded to tenants and had a competent accountant, they could keep tenants. Just a thought. They seem to think I'm joking when I tell them Im filing a police report and taking them to small claims. Arboreal still doesn't care. Never trust a company that hides its business address. The police need to look into this company. STAY AWAY.

It was incredibly challenging to schedule an apartment tour due to the poor response of the staff.read more

I would consider this the best property management company in Seattle. They provide peace of mind…read moreand excellent service to my tenants. They pay attention to my property and let me know about everything they do, They provide me exceptional service and most importantly, peace of mind. You can trust them with your property.

First of all, we are about the best tenants you can find with impeccable rental history and great…read moreincome. This is all verifiable th This house is expensive.. so expensive I am embarrassed to say it here. It came with so many wonderful amenities.. until it turned out that it didn't. A huge modern TV in the basement! I guess that helps make the price worth it! Except the TV is from 2010, cant load any modern streaming services and is basically huge e-waste. (Don't feature it in the add for the house.. ). Its trivial, but our old 2015 TV was giving us some headaches due to its age, so seeing this in the add was like "ah! Perfect for us!" But. hilariously the huge TV doesn't work unless you hook it up to a laptop with an HDMI cable across the room. Don''t believe me? Look up Sharp Aquos Quattron. See if it hooks up to even Amazon Prime Video (spoiler alert, it doesn't). (Oh and it turns out Netflix stopped supporting this machine many years ago). The hoops we had to jump through to secure this house! Way too hard. Its almost as if they are justifying their service by putting people through the wringer.. we could have cared for this house ourselves and done just as good of a job if not better.. but they justify their enormous costs basically by making people go through SO MUCH effort. It's starting to feel like a grift/cash grab. That being said there are positives. Kathy is kind and responsive (was). The recruiter who we contacted was just wonderful. So it's not the people we deal with, it's the actual process, hoops and the rug pull we are currently feeling. We arrived after an arduous move, very long and serious to find our trash so full and heavy that the garbage men rejected it due to its weight.(400 pounds?). this is after my wife and I both pushed and pulled it up the hill to the street, injuring ourselves in the process. So now we are saddled with this super heavy trash and nowhere to take it and no where to put OUR trash.. We PAY for our trash services... so.. ? Find a house that is being rented by the owner and just do a good job caring for the home. You will save yourselves THOUSANDS of dollars, a myriad of hoops, headaches and effort. Plus they force you into a 24 month lease.. and now I know why.. because people would leave in droves. So that's some more good advice, if they force you to do a long term lease, that is a big red flag. Also, we have rented sight unseen in the past. No problem. Why? Because those owners were confident the house was fine. If they DONT allow sight unseen.. what does that tell you? Something is wrong.. or they are hiding flaws that they want you to walk by without noticing so they can sign their 80 page move in documents. More good advice, ask about sight unseen (even if you don't intend on doing that and see what the response is). They reach out 3 times to verify we set up utilities (a month after we already did that) almost as if to justify the existence of the utility manager.. but the internet, the one and only utility besides electric we need to work for our jobs.. that doesn't count, no assistance or advice there, just figure it out.. but if you pick the wrong services you are in for another headache. Just make sure you pick the same service that the house had before .. or you are in for more delays, headaches and stress. The home is quite lovely as is the yard but far from worth this cost (the cost includes pain, stress and anger) ... and there were some issues moving in, the drawers and cupboards were grimy and we had to clean it all with a scraper. Yuck. a couple bad electrical outlets (which we haven't even mentioned yet, one issues at a time, we are not trying to inundate them).. wiggly and loose thick glass shower and bathroom doors (all of which look brand new and never tested but sure do look nice. Pooling water on the floor after a shower creating a mold stain. We created tickets in the portal, but they are now showing closed and resolved! (They are NOT resolved). Its just for the money we pay, you would think the things that were part of the draw, (like the TV) would work and not just be more work for us.. heck for this money even be set up for us on our arrival! But no.. we are saddled with a big (70 inch) hunk of junk. If I owned this company I would make it right by purchasing us a TV that actually works with the modern streaming services (not some ancient xFinity Vudu nonsense). Last but not lease.. the faucet. We come home.. burnt from moving, start our first dishes and it squirts right in our faces! LOL.. its hilarious..until its not. except nobody seems interested in fixing it.. or if they are we are not in the loop. I jammed my thumb up into the faucet so now at least it sprays in other directions than directly at our bodies. Maybe waiting for parts? Maybe they should tell us that. . This post is from 2023 . but somehow just showing up now, you should hear about the MOVE OUT PROCESS. It was even worse.. AVOID THIS BUSINESS AT ALL COSTS.